they are loosers.
they spent decades and billions and billions
and billions of dollars , sort of rebuilding used shuttle parts(SLS= shuttle leftover systems), and cant fill the fucking tanks, cant get things to seal, there thruster valves(old shuttle stuff) sieze up, and they are a bunch of bumbling grifter loosers.(sorry! to the many good people caught up in this debaucle)
50/50 the thing flys
0% it lands humans on the moon
open discussions at the top to can this piece of junk now
only thing keeping it going is massive political pressure, and nobody worth there salt, especialy if they have a career ahead of them, is stupid enough to be involved to the point of signing off on mission clearance.
it is hardware poor, and has no visible high profile leader making it happen.
loosers.loser.
This is doubly not unusual dealing with hydrogen.